Jesse Johnson Yeates

Jesse Johnson Yeates (born May 29, 1829 in Murfreesboro , Hertford County , North Carolina , †  September 5, 1892 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1879 and in 1881 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jesse Yeates first attended private schools and then the Emory and Henry College in Emory ( Virginia ). After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1855, he began to work in Murfreesboro in this profession. Between 1855 and 1860 he was a prosecutor in the local Hertford County. He then served from 1860 to 1866 as a prosecutor in the first judicial district of his state. However, this activity was interrupted by participation in the civil war.

At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . From 1860 to 1862 he was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives . During the Civil War, he served first as a captain and later as a major in a North Carolina infantry unit that was part of the Confederate Army . During the tenure of Governor Jonathan Worth (1865-1868) Yeates was a member of his advisory staff. In 1871 he was a delegate to the regional conference of the Democratic Party in North Carolina. In the same year he was also a member of a commission for the revision of the state constitution.

In the congressional election of 1874 Yeates was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first constituency of North Carolina, where he succeeded Clinton L. Cobb on March 4, 1875 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1879 . In the elections of 1878 he was defeated by the Republican Joseph John Martin . However, Yeates objected to the outcome of this election. In the meantime, Martin took up his new mandate on March 4, 1879. The Congress only decided on January 29, 1881 in favor of Yeates, who could only serve as a member of parliament for a few weeks until March 3 of the same year.

In 1880, Jesse Yeates had not run for Congress. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer in the federal capital Washington. He died there on September 5, 1892. He was married to Virginia Scott (1832-1888), with whom he had a son.

Web links

• Jesse Johnson Yeates in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jesse Johnson Yeates in the database of Find a Grave (English)